They also did an event at the Paley Center last night that's pretty goddam adorable.  http://vimeo.com/76807895

Honorable Mention to this brilliantly batshit series on Tumblr…the drawing is crude, but the XF knowledge is deep…. http://thex-filescomics.tum…

If you've never seen Bad Day at Black Rock, you're in for a treat.  That movie is awesome.  Spencer Tracy as a one-armed badass who takes on a whole town.  Really, it's damn good.

Yes!! Monster of the Week is awesome!  As is the X-Files "Season 10" comics, which have me running to my local comic shop every few weeks like a dadgum teenage boy.

Not to be "that guy," but Shepard's not from the south.  He's from Duarte, CA by way of Chicago.  But I can see how you'd think he's one of ours, what with all the hapless drunken redneck-y males littering his fictional landscapes.

Ooh, yeah, this is terrible.  I didn't even make it all the way through.  Agreed with everything you guys have already said about the uselessness of this endeavor.  I used to be a huge Soul Coughing fan.  This is just…terrible.

I can't believe I'm actually spending some solid time this afternoon thinking about my conflicting feelings about Reality Bites. The first time I saw it, as a junior in high school just a few years younger than these characters, I kind of hated it.  I wanted to be a filmmaker, and I felt like I was supposed to…

I totally felt that first paragraph.  I remember being in high school and feeling really cool by graduating from watching Picket Fences to spending my Friday nights watching X-Files and Homicide: Life on the Street.

If any of you are poetry fans, this year I read and loved Catherine Barnett's Game of Boxes and Fort Red Border by Kiki Petrosino.  Currently reading Mark Halliday's Thresherphobe and Joseph Fasano's Fugue for Other Hands, both very good so far.

I've been really wanting to get into Alice Munro - where should a newbie begin?

Yet another MulderJesus moment…interesting, though, the reading of Scully as Judas.

Agreed - very nice wrap-up, Todd!

I'm totally unembarrassed to admit that I saw Urge about two years ago.  They were flat-out awesome.  And the new album's pretty damn good, too.  If the idea of Steely Dan-meets-Cheap-Trick is your bag, baby.

I'd just like to say…Californication depresses me deeply.  Even the title is so fucking embarrassing.  It's like a joke no self-respecting twelve-year-old-boy would laugh at.  I remember catching the last few minutes of the "Inside the Actors Studio" with David Duchovny once…it was during the Q&A; I can't remember the…

Word.  Moby's "Play" was the "Rumours" of the late 90s.

Ditto on watching CSM teach Scully how to water ski.  I remember being pleasantly surprised at WBD's writing skills, despite the moderately creepy fanfic aspect to the whole evening gown bit.  At this point in the series, they were starting to lose me.  I was really glad to see a good old-fashioned conspiracy episode…

Oh NOW I remember Chimera.  Just that line.  It's a great moment, that he/the show actually acknowleges the M&S Weirdness.

Yeah, I completely forgot about the existence of Chimera.  And it's only been a year since I rewatched this series.  Even reading the review isn't really helping bring anything back.  Maybe this, in and of itself, is an X-File.

Wait, I thought the official AV Club expression of sincerety was:  Happy birthday David Bowie and thank you for blessing us with another album….
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Zack, I'd just like to add that I completely agree with your statement about never needing to see another serial killer stalking his prey.  I was so excited to hear about Gillian Anderson being cast in a TV show again, and then I found out it's just more Hannibal Lecter bullshit.  I can't wait til Hollywood gets sick…